Exhibitionary Order: Display as World View
March 26, 2021
The second in an ongoing series of research methods based discussions hosted by CE+, Exhibitionary Orders: Display as World View brings together a group of cross-disciplinary historians, critics, and artists with whose research, writing, and practices deal with contemporary issues of display, image, representation, and visual and material culture across scales, from the gallery to the urban landscape. Ph.D candidate Dijia Chen and student Scott Mitchell will be joined in discussion with guests Michael Kubo, Ph.D; Sarah Mozafari, MFA; and Alec Stewart, Ph.D.
These scholars will present work that critically examines the embodiment of cultural identity, social relations, and power struggle in visual and material culture through academic research, curatorial practices, and installation design. Their methods span from archival, institutional, and qualitative analysis to research-based curating and design. Through a variety of cross-disciplinary lenses, they reassess power, value, and meaning-making in the contemporary, exhibitionary order of image and objects.
PANELISTS:
MICHAEL KUBO, Ph.D
SARA MOZAFARI, MFA
ALEC STEWART, Ph.D
Michael Kubo is an Assistant Professor of Architectural History, Theory, and Criticism at the University of Houston. His practice spans the fields of architectural history and theory, architectural design, publishing, and curation. He holds a B.A. in Architecture from the University of Massachusetts, an M.Arch. from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. from MIT, where his dissertation focused on the rise and international extension of the architectural corporation after 1945. He was associate curator for OfficeUS, the US Pavilion at the 2014 International Architecture Biennale in Venice. As co-director of the pinkcomma gallery in Boston, he has curated over fifteen exhibitions on modern and contemporary architecture since 2009.
Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist, Sara Mozafari, was born in 1981 in Tehran, Iran. She received her Honors Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies from the University of Toronto in 2017. She is currently studying Interdisciplinary Master’s in Arts, Media, and Design at OCAD University. Having grown up through the war between Iran and Iraq and the suppression of the political and social activists, religious minorities, and women, social issues became the primary concern in her life, and they reflected on her artworks. After immigrating to Canada in 2006, her factual perceptions of her home country narrowed to the memories she has and the news she receives from the media on an everyday basis. Her current practice focus is on the idea of the recognition of space, displacement, and memory in diverse aspects of human identity and social relations.
Alec Stewart is a Mellon Fellow in Urban Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks and a built environment historian and urban geographer. His field of study encompasses twentieth- and twenty-first-century urban history, and his research examines how people claim urban space through patterns of everyday use. He holds a B.A. in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley, a M.A. in Geography from George Washington University, and a Ph.D. in Architectural History, Theory and Society from the University of California, Berkeley. He integrates fieldwork, ethnography, mapping, and archival research in his methodological approach, which illuminates how specific instances of city building and mobility feed into larger processes of (sub)urbanization, race-making, and material culture production.
MODERATED BY:
DIJIA CHEN, Ph.D Candidate
SCOTT MITCHELL, Ph.D Candidate
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